Brussels, 15/05/2012 (Agence Europe) - EU27 finance ministers reached broad agreement on Tuesday 15 May on the CRD IV (capital requirements directive) draft legislation to incorporate into EU rules the Basel Committee's Basel III Agreement on bank capital requirements - rules that apply to Europe's more than 8,000 banks (see EUROPE10607). “With the directive the EU is putting itself at the front among the large economies in the G20 in terms of implementing the global banking standards”,...